RT Article
T1 Survival and Resilience Among Palestinian Women: A Qualitative Analysis Using Individual and Collective Life Events Calendars
JF Violence against women
VO 27
IS 6/7
SP 900
OP 917
A1 Veronese, Guido
A1 Sousa, Cindy
A1 Cavazzoni, Federica
A2 Sousa, Cindy
A2 Cavazzoni, Federica
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1755889720
AB Responding to the need for more information concerning the mental health and psychological well-being of women living amid political oppression and war, this study aimed to explore specific factors that contribute to women’s individual and collective perceptions about war and the associated traumatic life events that occurred during their lives. Moving from a socioecological and culture-informed perspective, we used narrative timelines elicited from 21 Palestinian women in Gaza, both individually and collectively, as a tool for both data collection and intervention. A deductive, top-down, thematic content analysis procedure was used to categorize data. The main events outlined by the women in their historical accounts, both individual and collective, were linked to political events in and surrounding Palestine. The life events’ calendars reflect a constant attempt in balancing and compensating traumatic events with sources of well-being related to social support and family. Individual and collective narrative activities contributed to generate a significant reframing in the attribution of meaning and emotional perceptions of the participants. Women articulated how they build resilience through transgenerational and daily practices of resistance that encompass indigenous strategies of coping and skills of survival.
K1 Political Violence
K1 War
K1 collective narrative
K1 Resilience
K1 Historical trauma
DO 10.1177/1077801220914406